From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45659 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754735Ab1FHLiJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 07:38:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4DEF5F1F.5090807@RedHat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 07:38:07 -0400 From: Steve Dickson To: Ben Greear CC: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question on passing extra argument to kernel. References: <4DEE9324.8030703@candelatech.com> In-Reply-To: <4DEE9324.8030703@candelatech.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 On 06/07/2011 05:07 PM, Ben Greear wrote: > On stock Fedora 13, you can add extra options to mount (srcaddr=1.2.3.4) > and if you patch the kernel to parse it, then all works well > (mount and/or mount.nfs just passes the options directly to the > kernel it seems.) > > With the git://git.infradead.org/users/steved/nfs-utils.git tree, > mount.nfs errors out with 'bad option'. Try using git://linux-nfs.org/~steved/exports/nfs-utils > > What is the preferred way to go about adding new options? Post a patch to this list... steved.